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Plot Summary:
In the closed community of a reform school for teenagers, the principal's daughter is found sexually molested. The schoolgirls seem to know more than they are willing to tell.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Before the Bat's Flight Is Done (1989)
Plot Summary:
How far can one person go when love becomes obsession?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Hush (2012)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Blackrock (1997)
Plot Summary:
In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, tear jerker, independent film, tearjerker
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Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (2000)
Plot Summary:
A man uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to settle his accounts with society.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, homoerotic
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The Collector (1997)
Plot Summary:
Eevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Golden Apples of the Sun (1973)
Plot Summary:
Behind these bars lies an unbridled fury. Caged Terror-a tale of madness, infidelity and revenge. Everyone needs to get away from it all, and the country is the most tranquil place to escape life's everyday battles. Or is it? Richard and Janet, a city couple, find that just the opposite is true as their weekend getaway is transformed into a frightening and primitive wilderness. Camping for the night in a seemingly abandoned farmhouse, the two are suddenly joined by strangers who have been secretly watching them all afternoon. Strangers who will soon cage Richard like a trapped animal and ravage his wife. Strangers who will drive Richard berserk in the cold and inhuman isolation of Caged Terror.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, avant garde, independent film, grindhouse, cult film
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Skin, Skin (1966)
Plot Summary:
Mikko Niskanen's famous new wave film about the '60s urban intellectuals who get faced in the Finnish countryside with loads of beer.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Adoration (2019)
Plot Summary:
Paul is a 12 year old boy who lives with his mother, a nurse working at a mental institution in the middle of a forest. While visiting his mother at the clinic, Paul crosses paths with Gloria, a schizophrenic teenager, and falls in love with her to the point that he decides to help her escape at all costs after she commits a crime. The pair embarks on a trip across the Ardennes woods which will reveal the extent of Gloria’s dangerous madness and Paul’s devotion to her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Just the Two of Us (2023)
Plot Summary:
When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Descent (2007)
Plot Summary:
A college co-ed is brutally raped and struggles alone to rebuild her life, but when the chance for revenge comes she as a Victim sinks lower than her Predator.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, rough, brutal, suspense, erotic, dark, controversial, realistic, crying
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Suburbia (1983)
Plot Summary:
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, retro, political, social, psychotronic, period piece, indie film, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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Freeze Me (2000)
Plot Summary:
Chihiro is raped by three men and it is captured on video camera. She leaves her hometown and prepares to marry a colleague five years later, when one of the rapists arrives and says the others are on their way. He behaves like her long-lost lover and mistreats her again. Chihiro takes revenge, kills him and puts him in a freezer. The other rapists are awaiting a similar fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, cult classic, grindhouse, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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She Cried No (1996)
Plot Summary:
A college freshman is date-raped and tries to press charges.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying
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The Hanged Man (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two lovers break the law and struggle to stay together when carnal obsession causes tempers to flare.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Ireland
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy
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1313: Wicked Stepbrother (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jarrod is horrified to learn that a faceless killer is celebrating his birthday by filling his mansion with the corpses of his closest friends.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, homoerotic, tense, slasher, independent film, campy
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Lipstick (1976)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-shamed by the defense and the man is exonerated. But justice will be served.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, action thriller, spooky, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Flocking (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a teenage girl reports a rape, her village ostracizes her and her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 901
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime thriller, gloomy, crying
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Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
Plot Summary:
This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However, her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfather's hands, and she decides to take revenge. The events that follow are a mix of dark humor and an exploration of modern morality as Roseanne faces not only a fellow suburbanite who knows, but her own conscience as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, clever, teen, independent film, realistic, cynical, gloomy, sexy
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Return to Sender (2015)
Plot Summary:
A nurse living in small town goes on a blind date with a man who is not the person he says he is.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, psychological thriller, powerful
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The Silence of the Sky (2016)
Plot Summary:
After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Chile
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Daniel and Ana (2009)
Plot Summary:
Being kidnapped shatters a brother and sister's harmony, forcing them to confront their desires.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, sincere, erotic, offbeat, controversial, sexual, eros, disturbing, tense
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Young Gods (2003)
Plot Summary:
Taavi,the enigmatic 18-year-old lead, has just inherited his long-deceased wealthy parents home and estate. It is high school graduation and Taavi's birthday, and after his fiends greet him au natural and are arrested, Taavi invites his friends to the mansion for a wild party. Taavi lives with a recording camera to his eye, a machine that allows his to keep interpersonal distance from everyone. Among his friends are Jere who considers himself a woman's man, Markus (who appears the well-adjusted one, and chubby, pierced Sami whose sexuality is ambiguous. The party gets wild, guests sleep around, and Taavi records it all!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, sexual, sexy
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Fat Girl (2001)
Plot Summary:
Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, but harboring jealousy and similar desires. Their actions, however, have unforeseen tragic consequences for the whole family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bleak, erotic, psychological, sexy, tense, controversial, disturbing, sensual, stylized, sexual
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The War Zone (1999)
Plot Summary:
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, depressing, heartbreaking, rough, emotional, controversial, atmospheric, brutal, serious
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Autumn Blood (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two young orphans in the Tirolian Mountains come under siege by a vicious band of hunters. Frightened of being separated by child services following the death of their mother, a self-sufficient 16-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother - who hasn't spoken a word since seeing his father killed by the mayor - strive to live off the land in peace. Their innocence is shattered, however, when a group of hunters led by the mayor's son brutalizes and rapes the free-spirited girl. Later, when a well-meaning social services worker arrives too late to protect the terrorized siblings, the girl and her brother prepare to take a stand against their ruthless attackers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, independent film, weird
Similar in 84%
Sleepers (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 234000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sadistic, harsh, suspenseful, suspense, serious, psychological, brutal, intense, emotional
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Coldwater (2013)
Plot Summary:
A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, independent film, juvenile
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Fear (1996)
Plot Summary:
A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexual, psychological, suspenseful, sexy, suspense, psychological thriller, teen, neo noir, serious, erotic
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Speak (2004)
Plot Summary:
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to hide her secret: that star senior Andy raped her at the party. But Melinda does manage to find solace in her art class headed by Mr. Freeman.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sentimental, independent film, sincere, sad, depressing, teen, thought provoking, intellectual
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Cracks (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Switzerland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, melancholic, serious, stylized, erotic, suspense, period piece, disturbing, realistic, depressing